A Pakistani police officer inspects a burned police check post following an attack on the outskirts of Peshawar. Militants armed with guns and rockets attacked the post overnight, sparking gun battles that left six police officers dead.

A government employee in the summer capital of the state of Jammu and Kashmir shouts slogans as he is detained by police during a protest. The employees demanded the government compensate them for unpaid salaries and raise the retirement age.

Filipino Muslims celebrate after hearing news of the signing of a preliminary peace pact between the government and the nation's largest Muslim rebel group. The news came during a rally outside the gates of the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila.

A brambling, a type of finch, is caught in a mist net erected by British Trust for Ornithology volunteers at Spurn Point coastal reserve in Spurn Head. The BTO office there captures migrating birds in mist nets before weighing, sexing and recording the birds' details to monitor populations and migration.

Visually impaired people walk together while marking White Cane Safety Day in the Belarus capital. White Cane Safety Day is celebrated in many countries on Oct. 15. The date was set aside in 1964 to celebrate the achievements of people who are blind or visually impaired and to bring awareness to the symbol of blindness and tool of independence, the white cane.

Pictures in the News | Oct. 15, 2012

Monday’s Pictures in the News begins in Portugal, where Huntington Beach native Brett Simpson flies off the lip at the RipCurl Pro Portugal at Supertubos in Peniche.

In Peshawar, a Pakistani police officer inspects a burned-out police check post following an attack by armed militants overnight that sparked a gun battle in which six police officers were killed. And in India, government employees in the state of Jammu and Kashmir are detained by police during a protest against the government and unpaid salaries in Srinagar, the summer capital; and Filipino Muslims celebrate after hearing news of the signing of a preliminary peace pact between the government and the nation’s largest Muslim rebel group during a rally outside the gates of the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila.

Elsewhere, a woman takes picture of fluorescent tube artwork as part of the “Dan Flavin Lights” exhibition at the Mumok Museum of Modern Art in Vienna; a tourist sits outside a cafe in flooded St. Mark’s Square in Venice; and an Indian artist paints earthen pots that will be used by Hindu women during the Navratri festival in Bhubaneswar.

Add stops in Belarus, Bangladesh, England and Switzerland to round out the report.